“She Is Inherently Golden”: Savannah Miller On Her Sister Sienna Miller’s Model

Rising up in a bohemian family, my mum Jo, Sienna and I had been like a band of sisters. It was in our teenage years that we began experimenting with garments, though we by no means spoke about vogue per se. I’ve simply all the time beloved making issues. My mum joked that she by no means had a picket spoon the precise color, as a result of I used to be consistently dyeing and enjoying round with textiles within the basement. It was a very experimental time and our door was all the time open. We had a stylist pal, Hannah Sandling, who was older than us and a type of ’90s raver. She had all these advert hoc matching outfits, styled with buffalo boots and hair extensions – Child Spice vibes – and we had been each actually into it. There was a time period after I was dressed head to toe in every little thing neon and Sienna would load checks, prints and florals on abruptly.

There was all the time that basic sister factor of “you stole my such and such!”, however actually we had been all the time very particular person. I wasn’t ever as pioneering as Sienna. She’s simply acquired an actual instinct for tendencies, and could be very a lot tuned in to one thing past the current day by way of styling. Sienna and I had been obsessive about the ’70s and authentic Woodstock vogue tradition. We loved the joys of discovering distinctive clothes and frolicked in Portobello, which was a stone’s throw from dwelling, fairly than Oxford Circus – though Topshop clearly acquired a glance in. We had been fairly conscious from early on that we wished to be ourselves and, with out sounding tacky, that isn’t potential if you happen to simply maintain carrying what everybody else is carrying. Our love of classic gave us a possibility to be particular person.

The beauty of our mum was that she by no means mentioned something about what we wore. I imply, at occasions, we regarded ridiculous, however she allow us to discover our personal manner. I suppose there was a freedom on this to essentially type of hone it down. We acquired there ultimately. Except for one hysterical Tatler shoot we did in our late teenagers, throughout which I kissed a lobster, we don’t have any regrets. Now, we glance again at how ridiculous we regarded and we actually, actually chortle.